Word: thinning
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Fonda was obsessed with being thin from girlhood and thought she had found a way to control her weight when a school friend introduced her to bulimia...
...that Peter and I should go to boarding school, as was common at the time for families who could afford it. Peter was enrolled at the Fay School in Massachusetts and I at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. Starting my freshman year at Emma Willard, being very thin assumed dominance over good hair in the hierarchy of what really mattered...
...never materialized. When I told this story to a friend recently, she said, "You're a smart girl, Jane. How did you get duped into believing this and sending in the money?" Because I was 13 (hence immortal) and health wasn't a factor if it meant getting thin. I knew tapeworms weren't fatal. If it had been a bubonic virus I was sending away for, I'd have thought twice--maybe. But anything that would allow me to get thin without having to do something active seemed attractive. Mind you, I wasn't as extreme...
Vaillancourt—arguably the team’s fastest skater—used the Olympic-sized sheet at the Whittemore Center to her advantage all game long, skating past defenders and spreading the opposing formations thin to create scoring chances for herself and her teammates...
...also a step ahead thanks to Barrett's farsighted investments in manufacturing. While AMD has one major semiconductor plant, Intel has four placed strategically around the world, churning out chips 24 hours a day. And unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal with wafer-thin margins, Intel--thanks to its dominant position--enjoys a 55% profit margin on every $300 PC chip. "Most companies would kill to get margins like that," says Nathan Brockwood, senior analyst for Insight 64, a Silicon Valley research firm...